Doomed MH370 was no accident and it was SUICIDE, say experts

MISSING: The search continues for flight MH370, which disappeared over a year ago [IG]

The plane disappeared on March 8 last year while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members.

Debris from the flight has never been found and the search continues.

Now senior pilot Byron Bailey claims the disappeared flight did not crash because of a shortage of fuel, but because of a pilot suicide.

He believes that the captain of the flight, Zaharie Shah, deliberately hid the plane from radar and flew it thousands of miles off course before bringing it down into the ocean.

Bailey spoke to experts and found out that the Flight Management System (FMS) – which automatically maps the flight plan – had been manually overridden.

He said: "I believe someone hijacked the aircraft, turned all communication equipment off over the South China Sea, then flew westward towards Penang and reprogrammed the Flight Management System to the southern Indian Ocean – otherwise the aircraft would have flown itself to Beijing.

"Who reprogrammed the FMS?"

“This therefore suggests a preplanned suicide”

Byron Bailey

Only an experienced pilot can override an FMS. There were two pilots controlling MH370 and only Shah had the ability to do so, Bailey added.

He wrote in Australia's Daily Telegraph: "If the MH370 hijacker intentionally controls the aircraft for several hours, as stated by the world's largest Boeing 777 airline operator on German TV, into the remote Southern Indian Ocean then he must have been aware that he would die as there are no airfields within thousands of kilometres.

"This therefore suggests a preplanned suicide."

Byron Bailey is not the first professional pilot to claim MH370's disappearance was deliberate.

Captain Simon Hardy says the route it took after it vanished from air traffic control holds vital clues. It turned back on itself and flew along the border of Malaysia and Thailand.

He told the BBC: "It flew in and out of the countries eight times.

"This is probably very accurate flying rather than just a coincidence – as both air traffic controllers in both those countries would probably assume that the aircraft was in the other country's jurisdiction and not pay it any attention."

Hardy piloted commercial flights along the Asian air routes for 17 years.

He added that the most disturbing point comes later, when the flight skirts around the captain's home island of Penang.

"It does a strange hook," he said. "I spent a long time thinking about this and eventually I found that it was a similar manoeuvre to what I'd done in Australia over Ayers Rock.

"Because the airway goes directly over Ayers Rock you don't actually see it very well because it disappears under the nose of the aircraft.

CAPTAIN: Zaharie Shah circled his home island of Penang before it disappeared [IG]

"So in order to look at it you have to turn left or right, get alongside it and then execute a long turn.

"If you look at the output from MH370, there were actually three turns not one.

"Someone was looking at Penang. Someone was taking a long, emotional look at Penang. The captain was from the island of Penang."

The theory is particularly disturbing in light of the doomed Germanwings Flight 9525, which suicidal co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed on March 24 – killing all 150 crew and passengers on board.

The 27-year-old locked his captain out of the A320's cockpit when he went to the bathroom. His captain, Patrick Sondheimer, could be heard on a black box recording shouting: "Open the goddamn door."